Confabulation and delusion

Max Coltheart; Martha Turner

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Confabulation and delusion

Max Coltheart^*, Martha Turner

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This chapter explores an intriguing similarity between confabulation and delusion, namely the tendency in both for people to seek to justify their unjustifiable false memories or false beliefs when these are challenged. It begins with five examples that are very different from each other. What unites them is that all are examples of confabulation - a view that will be defended after presenting the examples.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Confabulation
Subtitle of host publication	Views from neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology and philosophy
Editors	William Hirstein
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	173-188
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191723759
ISBN (Print)	9780199208913
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208913.003.08
Publication status	Published - 6 Aug 2009

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